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Card Of The Week November 7
The First Stage of the Climax Series in both the Central and Pacific Leagues kicked off yesterday and ended up concluding today. In the Central League, the third place Giants ended up with an upset...
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RIP Pedro Feliciano
Very sad news today - former pitcher Pedro Feliciano has passed away at age 45. Feliciano was best known for pitching for the Mets during the 00's but he spent 2005 in Japan pitching for the Fukuoka...
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Topps NPB Set
Almost five weeks after they announced their licensing deal with NPB, Topps has finally released some information about their first ever NPB card set. The set will be released in early December....
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2021 BBM Team Sets
After almost four weeks I'm finally doing the last post on the cards that Ryan included in the latest big package he sent me. As usual, the bulk of the package were the 12 BBM "comprehensive" team...
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Another One Bites The Dust
I've been in contact in the last few weeks with twycchang, a Japanese card collector living in Taiwan. He first contacted me to let me know that there was ANOTHER 1996 Late Series card that I didn't...
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Game Cards From Dan
A couple weeks ago I got a package of cards from Dan of Korean Cardboard fame. I was still getting through the package I had received from Ryan a few weeks earlier so it wasn't really until this past...
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Card Of The Week November 14
On Wednesday the Final Stage of the Climax Series in both the Central and Pacific Leagues started and amazingly, both the Swallows and Buffaloes starters threw complete game shutouts. Yoshinobu...
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2001 Japanese National Team
2002 BBM Japan National Team #30The Baseball World Cup was a tournament that the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) put on 38 times between 1938 and 2011. It was originally called the "Amateur...
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Ohtani MVP
Tonight Shohei Ohtani was announced as the unanimous winner of this year's AL MVP Award. I want to point out that this is the SECOND MVP award that Ohtani has won - he was the Pacific League MVP in...
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RIP Takeshi Koba
Hall of Famer and former Hiroshima Toyo Carp manager Takeshi Koba passed away last week at age 85. Koba started playing baseball in post-war Kumamoto and played in the 1953 Koshien tournament with...
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Card Of The Week November 21
This year's Nippon Series kicked off this weekend with two games in Osaka and they were both very memorable. Game One yesterday was one for the ages as Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Buffaloes and Yasunobu...
View ArticleHello 2022!
I wanted to do a quick post about the first 2022 set that's been announced but I need to talk just a little more about 2021 sets first. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is it really...
View ArticleBut Of Course!
I had missed this at first but Topps has announced a SECOND NPB set to be released next month and, of course, it's a Topps Chrome set! It looks similar to their previously announced NPB set in that...
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Card Of The Week November 28
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows wrapped up the 2021 Nippon Series Championship with a 2-1 12-inning victory over the Orix Buffaloes in Kobe yesterday. It was the Swallows first championship since 2001 and...
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Daisuke Yamai
With the 2021 Nippon Series in the books it's time to get serious about doing posts about players who've announced their retirements. I've got a list of about 15 or so players so far and it wouldn't...
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Tsuyoshi Wada
Long time Hawks pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada, the final active player from the "Matsuzaka Generation"* retired at the end of the season. Wada had a stellar collegiate career at Waseda University, setting the...
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Card Of The Week December 5
I was doing some preliminary research recently to get ready to do Yuki Saitoh's retirement post and I discovered something kind of interesting. Jim Allen actually alluded to this in a recent Japan...
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Robert Suarez of the San Diego Padres
Former Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and Hanshin Tigers pitcher Robert Suarez signed a one year contract with the San Diego Padres last week. Suarez is kind of odd in that he never was part of a major league...
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Kan Ohtake
Longtime Carp and Giants pitcher Kan Ohtake announced his retirement back in October (and, just because some recent events have made me gun-shy, here's a link to a story about his announcement)....
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Kenichi Nakata
Kenichi Nakata, most recently with the Hanshin Tigers, announced his retirement back at the end of September. He had been the Chunichi Dragons' second round pick in the 2004 draft out of Kitakyushu...
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